It might work in the US, but in the technological whop whops like NZ that sort of thing isn't going to work very well. Perhaps when we have modern internet speeds and modern ISP and 3/4G Caps then it might work here.

The price we pay for living in a beautiful place sadly

EDIT: Forgot to talk about the hardware

In terms of hardware, it's a very sexy looking device. Should the bootloader be unlockable it would look very nice with Ubuntu sitting on it! Personally I would love to try out a Chromebook, but the price and cost of additional services (connection and storage) makes then unattractive right now.

Considering what you are getting for the price, I have no idea how they justify the price from a consumer point of view however.

One website was putting up a bounty for the first person to install win8 on one, the assumption was that the hardware wise it was basically an intel ultrabook so it shouldn't pose too much of a problem

Even if it is a hit in the US it will fail miserably here as its cloud reliance will be a hard sell locally